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Winter Prologue Magazine Reveals the Story Behind the Grapes of Wrath

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, January 13th, 2009

The steep economic downturn and the tragic loss of so many jobs reminds many of the Great Depression of the 1930s, when the Dust Bowl conditions, ruined crops, and repossessed homes, sent many destitute families to California --- a chapter in American history immortalized in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.

But Steinbeck's Tom Joad and the other characters in this well-known novel were based on real people, as Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives and Records Administration, points out in its Winter 2008 issue, "Archival Vintages for The Grapes of Wrath," written by Dan Nealand, director of the National Archives Regional Archives in San Bruno, CA.

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